NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 450W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 107% (2520MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1010GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

14336 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090 +1557%

82.58 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980

4324

GeForce RTX 4090 +745%

36541

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 980

18

GeForce RTX 4090 +927%

185

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 980

35

GeForce RTX 4090 +700%

280

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 980

62

GeForce RTX 4090 +390%

304

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 980

60

GeForce RTX 4090 +178%

167

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 980

62

GeForce RTX 4090 +198%

185

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 980

100

GeForce RTX 4090 +86%

186

GeForce GTX 980

VS

GeForce RTX 4090

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Sep 2022

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

1010GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

128

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

16384

128

TMUs

512

64

ROPs

176

-

Tensor Cores

512

-

RT Cores

128

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

72 MB

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

443.5 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1290 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

82.58 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

82.58 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1290 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

AD102

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

AD102-300-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

609 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

450W

450 W

Suggested PSU

850 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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